Tank



Patented Een, 26, i322,

nir .raies NEWTON ABSOLUlVIMTYlC-I, OF MARION, 'LLL1NOIS, yASSGZBTOIB, OF ONETHALF`TO CLARENCE WOOD, OF CAMBRIA, ILLNOIS. l

TANK.

Application filed October 28,1921. Serial No. 511,207.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Nnw'ioN A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marion, in the county of l/Villiamson and Vith the foregoing and other objects ink view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawing Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view through a washer constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the reference'character 5 designates the body portion of the washer, which is in the form of a relatively long tank havingan offset portion 6 in communication therewith providing a housingfor the lower portieri of the conveyor 7 which operates over pulleys provided at the upper ends of the standards 8, the conveyor 7 operating at an angle with respect to the main tank 5,`the buckets 9 carried thereby operating to discharge material from the buckets into wagon or similar vehicle which may be positioned adjacent to the standards 8.

Shafts 10 are disposed at each end of the body portion or main tank 5, on which shafts are supported the rollers 11 over which operate the `endless belt 12 that carries the transverse bars 13 which feed the material towards one. end of the body portion.

The bars 13 constitute the'traveling baffies which cooperate with the stationary baffies 14 that are secured to the side walls of the body portion 5 in any suitable manner, and disposed at angles with respect there to, so that material fed onto the endless belt 12 will be agitated under the operation of the traveling baffles.

A. supply tank 15 is supported adjacent to one end of the body portion 5 and supplies water to the body portion or tank through the supply pipe 16, ythe flow of water to the tank being controlled by the valve 17.

Material is fed to the washer through the chute 18, which in turn is supplied with the material to be washed from any suitable source. Operating at one end of the body portion 5 is an endless conveyor 19 that has one end thereof disposed in the body portion 5 adjacent to the endless belt 12, where material which floats upwardly above the stationary baffles 14; may be deposited in the buckets 2O of the endless conveyor` 19.

From the foregoing it will ybe seen that as coal or similar material is fed to the body portion 5 and the movable baiiies operated, the material is agitated, the lighter substances such as coal or the like, passing upwardly towards the upper portion of the body 5, where the saine is delivered to the buckets.

It is to be understood however that the body portion 5 or tank, is supplied with water until the same reach a predetermined level in the body portion or tank 5, whereupon the machine may be operated to accomplish the washing result. It might be further stated that the endless conveyors forming parts of the device may be operated in any suitable manner.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is zconvey material to the discharge end. ot the tank, a laterally operated endless conveyor n adapted to receive material from tlie tank,

and a conveyor operating at one end of the tank to receive material directly from the endless belt.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own, l have hereto affixed iny signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

NEWTON ABSOLUM SMITH.

Witnesses R. R. FOWLER, F. E. PARKS. 

